Feb 1-7, 2012
Rutland Reinvents Itself — and Disputes Its Reputation; Opiate-Addicted Moms Find Help at the Hospital; A Grammy for Al Conti?; Levine on Hardwick’s Embezzlement; Vermont’s Mac Man Remembers Steve Jobs
Cover Story
Weinberger Hits Back: Wright Has Taken Outside Money in the Past
With the March 6 election fast approaching, the leading candidates for mayor of Burlington are stepping up the attacks — and it’s all about the Benjamins. Republican Kurt Wright criticized Democrat Miro Weinberger last week for jetting to Washington, D.C., for a fundraiser that netted $8000. Wright’s campaign spokesman said Weinberger was bringing outside money…
Art Handler Union, Students Occupy UVM Board Meeting
For Julian Tysh, a typical workday is spent among masterpieces. An art handler by trade, Tysh shuttles priceless art and artifacts between Sotheby’s auction house in Manhattan and the estates of its one-percenter clients. His colleagues have handled everything from decommissioned space shuttles to a copy of the Magna Carta, and he himself once hung…
Movies You Missed 24: The Other F Word
This week in movies you missed: So, what’s the “other F word”? Don’t bother guessing the filthiest thing you can think of. For dads who are also punk rockers, it’s “fatherhood.” What You Missed “Maybe punk wasn’t meant to ever grow up. But it did,” says Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion and Epitaph Records in…
Weinberger Names His Budget-Trimming Team
Burlington Mayor Bob Kiss may still hold the keys to City Hall, but that’s not stopping Miro Weinberger, the Democratic candidate vying to succeed him, from planning his own mayoral transition. Citing the quick turnaround between the March 6 election and the June 30 budget due date, Weinberger on Thursday named an eight-member panel that…
VT’s Nuke Expert Heads to Japan for Book Tour on Fukushima Daiichi Disaster
To say it’s been a hectic year for Arnie and Maggie Gundersen would be an understatement of nuclear proportions. In recent years, the Burlington couple and their firm, Fairewinds Associates, have become Vermont’s go-to experts on the design, safety and reliability of the state’s only nuclear facility, Vermont Yankee. For a time, the Gundersens were…
Wright Campaign Slams Weinberger Over Washington D.C. Fundraiser That Netted $8000
Updated below with additional comment from Weinberger campaign Democrat Miro Weinberger hopped on a plane to Washington D.C. for a fundraiser this past Monday, and returned to Burlington the next day with $8000 in the bank for his mayoral campaign. U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy headlined the 70-person soiree, which took place at the home of…
Burlington Dems Pick Finalists for Rep. Rachel Weston’s Former Seat
Burlington Democrats nominated three finalists last night to fill the state House seat vacated by Rachel Weston, and will send the names on to Gov. Peter Shumlin, who makes the final selection. At Democratic headquarters on Battery Street in Burlington, 19 members of the District Representative Committee picked from among four hopefuls. The top vote…
Burlington’s Mayoral Debate-athon Begins! (Complete Schedule)
Updated below with additional event on Feb. 22 And you thought the GOP presidential candidates had a punishing debate schedule. Starting tonight, the candidates for Burlington mayor will make Mitt, Newt, Rick and Ron look like debate lightweights. Between today and March 6, Republican Kurt Wright, Democrat Miro Weinberger and Independent Wanda Hines (pictured left…
Roving Poets
Poetry Review: (T)ravel/Un(t)ravel by Neil Shepard and The Day Bat by Edie Rhoads
WTF: Why does a perpetual gas flame burn near I-89 in Moretown?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
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The Young Street Rink [255]
1/29/12: The Young Street Rink in Colchester is a backyard ice rink that has been maintained by the Young Street community for about a decade. Over the years this patch of ice has become the neighborhood hot spot. Eva visits on a Sunday night for a bonfire, burgers and a tour. Music: Kevin MacLeod, “Porch…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Police identified Keith A. Rebori, 23, as their suspect in the robbery of a pharmacy in East Stroudsburg, Pa., after they found a backpack near the scene that matched the one a surveillance video showed the robber carrying. It contained the holdup note and Rebori’s birth certificate. (Pocono Record) Irish police accused…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sad but true: A lot of people seem to be perpetually in a state of wanting what they don’t have and not wanting what they actually do have. I’m begging you not to be like that in the coming weeks, Aries. Please? I’ll tell you why: More than I’ve seen in…
Crumbs
Side Dishes: Leunig’s upstairs bar opens; Flan comes to Vermont; Hotel Vermont presents an ice bar
Letters to the Editor
Hot News? [Re “Totally Uncool,” January 25]: Wow! Warmer Vermont winters? No more frozen Lake Champlain? No longer relying on minimum-wage ski industry jobs as the economic “mainstay” of Vermont? Not a moment too soon! Dave Parker Burlington Ridgelines Are Not Renewable Rose Paul makes an important point regarding the threat of climate change to…
Johnson Center Rescues Rare Historic Horse Breed
A horse is a horse, of course, of course — unless that horse happens to be a rare breed called the Colonial Spanish. In that case, says horse enthusiast Stephanie Lockhart, don’t mistake the hardy little steed for just any old pony. These were the mounts first introduced to the then-New World by Spanish conquistadors…
